Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages.
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Sir Leslie Stephen
Standard Name: Stephen, Sir Leslie
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | She was forty to his twenty-two. He left Cambridge and took the India Office job in order to marry her. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Minny
, sister of Anne Thackeray
(later ATR
) married Leslie Stephen
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 159 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
's sister Minny
(wife of Leslie Stephen
), who was pregnant for the fourth time, died of eclampsia. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 164 Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages. xxv Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Harriet Marian Stephen |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | A sister, Jane, born in July 1838, died at the age of nine months. ATR
's second sister, Harriet Marian
or Minny, who did survive, was three years her junior. ATR
tried to fill... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | In the original Dictionary of National Biography, Leslie Stephen
accused CT
not only of inconsistency in switching her allegiance from Locke to Samuel Clarke, but also of being too obtuse to perceive her own... |
| Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
's parents made connections through friendship as remarkable as those made for them by family descent. Her mother was a friend of many writers and intellectuals of both sexes, including Marie Belloc Lowndes
,... |
| Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | |
| Textual Production | Margaret Veley | The year following her death, MV
's only poetry collection was published (selected by Leslie Stephen
, and with his preface), as A Marriage of Shadows. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Residence | Margaret Veley | In London, MV
, in the words of Leslie Stephen
, became known to a much larger circle capable of sympathising with her literary tastes than could be found in the country town Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. xii |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Veley | She followed these up with more poems and stories for various periodicals, particularly the Cornhill Magazine, where she received attention and encouragement from Leslie Stephen
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. x-xii |
| Textual Production | Margaret Veley | According to Leslie Stephen
, MV
began this first novel as early as March 1872. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. ix |
| Literary responses | Margaret Veley | Leslie Stephen
(in his later preface to posthumous work by MV
) commented that 'For Percival' had true literary distinction: a graceful, clear, and pointed style, a strong sense of humour and a keen perception... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Veley | Leslie Stephen
's preface eloquently characterised MV
's strengths as a writer. As well as praising her true and unusual literary distinction as a novellist, Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. x |
| politics | Virginia Woolf | VW
refused to deliver the Clark lecture series at Cambridge University
, thereby also declining to succeed her father, scholar Leslie Stephen
, in this honour. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 2: 172 |
| Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
refused E. M. Forster
's request for permission to nominate her to the Committee of the London Library
, because of the library's policy against women members (a policy instituted by her father, Leslie Stephen
). Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 2: 224 Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 216 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 663 |
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